elegancy

Example Sentences

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As to the correctness and elegancy of your writing, attention to grammar does the one, and to the best authors, the other.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

“I took fust-class when at school in the States for elegancy and deportment.”

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

Not long afterwards he brought me some verses written upon that model, a specimen of which I subjoin, having changed some phrases of less elegancy, and a few rhymes objectionable to the cultivated ear.

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas

However, he is a fanciful man, and thinks there is no 220 elegancy nor wit but in his own way of talking.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Here are only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, caret.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia